{"id":18958,"date":"2023-05-08T03:23:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T03:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-goal-of-this-exercise-is-to-observe-a-cultural-scene-as-an-anthropologist-would\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T03:23:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T03:23:23","slug":"the-goal-of-this-exercise-is-to-observe-a-cultural-scene-as-an-anthropologist-would","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-goal-of-this-exercise-is-to-observe-a-cultural-scene-as-an-anthropologist-would\/","title":{"rendered":"The goal of this exercise is to observe a &#8216;cultural scene&#8217; as an anthropologist would"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">Choose a time and location for where\/when you are going to conduct your observations of an ethnographic scene (mall, public transportation, coffee shop, etc.).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">Write a 4-6&nbsp;page paper about your observations&nbsp;&nbsp; Your paper should:&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">Include a \u2018thick description\u2019 of the location with&nbsp;clear detail of your observations<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">Analyze your observations, identifying and defining&nbsp;<strong style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">four&nbsp;anthropological concepts<\/strong>&nbsp;that fit your observations. &nbsp;Definitions should be supported with cited sources.<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">Analyze how these anthropological concepts&nbsp;fit&nbsp;your observations. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">Reflect on this activity.&nbsp; What was it like to observe other people through the lens of an anthropologist?<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">Include your field notes at the end of your paper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21px; cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\"><strong style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">One common<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">misstep<span style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>is to apply&nbsp;the four subfields of anthropology or to apply the four parts of the definition of culture.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">Conclude with a discussion of and reflection on your experience of the situation. For example you might write how you felt when you started to detect a pattern in characteristics and\/or behavior.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose a time and location for where\/when you are going to conduct your observations of an ethnographic scene (mall, public transportation, coffee shop, etc.).&nbsp; Write a 4-6&nbsp;page paper about your observations&nbsp;&nbsp; Your paper should:&nbsp; Include a \u2018thick description\u2019 of the location with&nbsp;clear detail of your observations Analyze your observations, identifying and defining&nbsp;four&nbsp;anthropological concepts&nbsp;that fit your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[703],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=18958"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=18958"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=18958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}